Quality of Life and Its Influencing Factors of Couples Referred to An Infertility Center in Shiraz, Iran
Background: Infertility adversely affects quality of life (QoL). The present study aims to evaluate QoL and its associatedfactors among infertile couples.Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the Fertility QoL (FertiQoL) instrument was used to measureQoL among 501 volunteer couples w...
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doaj-3da80d06b3c94f50864d339bfc11b97e2020-11-25T04:05:09ZengRoyan Institute (ACECR), TehranInternational Journal of Fertility and Sterility2008-076X2008-07782018-01-0111429329710.22074/ijfs.2018.512346297Quality of Life and Its Influencing Factors of Couples Referred to An Infertility Center in Shiraz, IranBahia Namavar Jahromi0Mahsa Mansouri1Sedighe Forouhari2Tahere Poordast3Alireza Salehi4Infertility Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranStudent Research Center, Infertility Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranShahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Infertility Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranInfertility Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranResearch Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranBackground: Infertility adversely affects quality of life (QoL). The present study aims to evaluate QoL and its associatedfactors among infertile couples.Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the Fertility QoL (FertiQoL) instrument was used to measureQoL among 501 volunteer couples who attended the Infertility Clinic at the Mother and Child Hospital, Shiraz, Iran.We used an additional questionnaire to assess participants’ demographic and clinical characteristics. The relationshipbetween the scores of QoL to the sociodemographic and treatment data was analysed.Results: The subjects with lower income levels had lower relational, mind/body, emotional, and total core scores. Femaleparticipants without academic education had lower scores in the emotional subscale, while the male participantsshowed lower scores in emotional, mind/body, relational, social, and total QoL domains. Subjects who had undergoneany type of treatment, including pharmacological treatment, intrauterine insemination (IUI), intra-cytoplasmic sperminjection (ICSI), and in vitro fertilization (IVF) showed significantly lower scores in the environmental domain. Participantswith lower infertility duration obtained significantly greater QoL scores. Finally, tolerability, emotional, andenvironmental domains were significantly more desirable when the infertility problem was related to a male factor.Conclusion: Infertile couples with shorter duration of infertility and male etiology have higher QoL. Lower academiceducation, lower income levels, or prior unsuccessful treatments are associated with lower QoL.http://www.ijfs.ir/article_46297_222fbc2a8eaa097fa1db0f2696c49a74.pdfeducationincomeinfertilityquality of lifetreatment |
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Quality of Life and Its Influencing Factors of Couples Referred to An Infertility Center in Shiraz, Iran |
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Quality of Life and Its Influencing Factors of Couples Referred to An Infertility Center in Shiraz, Iran |
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Quality of Life and Its Influencing Factors of Couples Referred to An Infertility Center in Shiraz, Iran |
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Quality of Life and Its Influencing Factors of Couples Referred to An Infertility Center in Shiraz, Iran |
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Quality of Life and Its Influencing Factors of Couples Referred to An Infertility Center in Shiraz, Iran |
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quality of life and its influencing factors of couples referred to an infertility center in shiraz, iran |
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Royan Institute (ACECR), Tehran |
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International Journal of Fertility and Sterility |
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2008-076X 2008-0778 |
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Background: Infertility adversely affects quality of life (QoL). The present study aims to evaluate QoL and its associatedfactors among infertile couples.Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the Fertility QoL (FertiQoL) instrument was used to measureQoL among 501 volunteer couples who attended the Infertility Clinic at the Mother and Child Hospital, Shiraz, Iran.We used an additional questionnaire to assess participants’ demographic and clinical characteristics. The relationshipbetween the scores of QoL to the sociodemographic and treatment data was analysed.Results: The subjects with lower income levels had lower relational, mind/body, emotional, and total core scores. Femaleparticipants without academic education had lower scores in the emotional subscale, while the male participantsshowed lower scores in emotional, mind/body, relational, social, and total QoL domains. Subjects who had undergoneany type of treatment, including pharmacological treatment, intrauterine insemination (IUI), intra-cytoplasmic sperminjection (ICSI), and in vitro fertilization (IVF) showed significantly lower scores in the environmental domain. Participantswith lower infertility duration obtained significantly greater QoL scores. Finally, tolerability, emotional, andenvironmental domains were significantly more desirable when the infertility problem was related to a male factor.Conclusion: Infertile couples with shorter duration of infertility and male etiology have higher QoL. Lower academiceducation, lower income levels, or prior unsuccessful treatments are associated with lower QoL. |
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